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Class conscious workers and re early days of the New Year.
Not only were the claims of the buth African mercenary forces of NITA in the South to have made Irritorial gains shown to be false hen subject to independent vertcation, but at the same time, in te North of the country, the capure by the forces of the MPLA of ige (formerly Carmona), a capital I the northern province next to ie Zaire border, and Negage, anther important town in the area, ere confirmed.
Vige was formerly the 'capital' i the pro-imperialist FNLA forces i the Northern part of the puntry.
The last hope of the racists, ibalists and CIA puppets of the NLA and UNITA rested with the rganisation of African Unity Conrence that began at Addis Ababa • 10th. January.
CONSERVATIVE
! Here it was hoped that enough I the extreme conservative policians of Africa could be mobiled behind a 'fair to all sides' rithdraw all foreign troops' line hich would lend some credibility P the crumpling fortunes of the no-Western groups in Angola. | However, the increasing flood of cognitions of the MPLA govemtent of Angola in Luanda, the access of their military campaigns and the growing international suport for them in the fight against te CIA-backed FNLA and UNITA, *s made it more and more difficult p arrive at such arrangements.
As revolutionary Marxists, we in te WSL have consistently supporti the victory of the MPLA forces nd called for the recognition of • government by our own Labour ministration.
We have demanded the granting I any possible material support to I military campaigns. We do this lot because we have any illusions in he petty-bourgeois policies of the EPLA, who despite the support hey have from the urban working Lass, have never fought for any pcialist policies.
Nor have we any illusions in the urity of the motives behind the apport given to the MPLA from he Stalinists of the Soviet Union ind Cuba.
It is our elementary duty, howwer, to join in solidarity with those ho are in the front line of opposbion to imperialism, at the same ime as exposing their own inademate policies.
We must do this at the same one as exposing the machinations
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